Zhuge Liang was a chancellor of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, and he read a lot of books when he was young; because his father died early, he followed his uncle Zhuge Xuan, and later Zhuge Xuan also died, and he lived with his eldest brother Zhuge Jin. Zhuge Liang is a man with great ambitions, he knows that he must make a big career in the future, so he actively "social circle".
▲ Zhuge Liang relied on the social circle to soar, so that his life was less than 30 years. (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
Zhuge Liang took refuge in Xiangyang for 14 years, and was able to become a well-known "Wolong" from a scholar, although there are many reasons, but one of the important factors is that he is good at operating social circles.
At that time, in Xiangyang, there were three relatively powerful forces, forming two circles with relatively large influence. A political force represented by Liu Biao and a local powerful force represented by Cai Mao and Ku Yue combined to form a circle; the core figure of this circle was Liu Biao, and the backbone of this circle was Cai Mao, Ku Yue, Qu Liang, and others. The other force is the local cultural forces represented by Pang Degong and Sima Hui, and they have also formed a circle, which is called a cultural circle; the leader is Pang Degong, and the backbone is Sima Hui, Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, and so on.
Liu Biao of Jingzhou was a brother-in-law with Huang Chengyan, a famous Xiangyang warrior of Zhuge Liang, while Liu Biao and Huang Chengyan were also Cai Mao's brother-in-law. Zhuge Liang's eldest brother-in-law was The Xiangyang Hao clan, and the second brother-in-law was Pang Shanmin, the son of Pang Degong. The Liu family, the Cai family, the Ao family, and the Huang family are all great families in Xiangyang. Based on this, Zhuge Liang's family is also operating a social circle in an intensive manner.
▲ Married to Huang Chengyan's daughter, Zhuge Liang can just enter high society. (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
Huang Chengyan's daughter was not beautiful, but Zhuge Liang was talented and charming, and in the ancient era of paying attention to the appearance of Lang Cai's daughter, Zhuge Liang was said at that time, "Don't be Kong Ming's choice of wife, just get Ah Cheng's ugly daughter." In fact, marrying Huang Chengyan's daughter can just enter high society. Only by squeezing into Liu Biao's circle can you understand what ordinary people can't understand to expand your communication, get to know talents from all over the country, and thus collect information from all over the country.
In fact, zhuge Liang ju cultivated Nanyang, originally a local farmer, because of Huang Chengyan's circle to let him be like a fish, met Sima Hui and others, and even won the favor of Liu Beisan Gu Maolu. Therefore, Zhuge Liang relied on the social circle to soar and let his life struggle for 30 years.
Of course, Zhuge Liang can be called "Wolong", and is "three Gu Maolu" by Liu Bei, in addition to his good at running social circles, what is more important is that he has the talent of heaven and earth. After Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang took sole control of military and political power, thus beginning a period of ten years of strength in the Shu Han Dynasty. He internally used the French family to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and led a large army to the south to conquer the northern expedition, and Cao Pi once considered moving the capital, until the 54-year-old Wuzhangyuan was dying, Zhuge Liang also commanded the military administration and personnel affairs one by one, and set a strategy for retreating from the enemy, so talented, had to be amazed!
▲ Zhuge Liang has the ability to learn through heaven and earth. (Photo/Reprint from wikipedia entry)
However, regarding Zhuge Liang's various deeds, you readers can go to see ruofu's "Fifty Years of Great Conspiracy and Small Calculation: The Biography of Zhuge Liang", this book is not like the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are too many exaggerations and fabrications of Zhuge Liang, but through historical facts, dig out a real Zhuge Liang, in the book we can see a flesh and blood, true feelings of Zhuge Liang.
There is a scene in "The New Three Kingdoms" that makes me very emotional, the general plot is: when Liu Bei went to Eastern Wu as a son-in-law, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei's little friend guarded Jingzhou alone, but Liu Bei did not return for a long time, Zhuge Liang was not in a hurry to urge, until one day Guan Zhang and the two menans angrily asked Zhuge Zhuge "Do you hope that the eldest brother will not return from now on, and you will take his place?" In that situation, Lu Yi's performance (playing Zhuge Liang) is very in place, grievances, anger, restraint and many emotions flash on his face, I think that this Zhuge Liang can be regarded as a little "human".
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms